Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Alix E. Harrow

The Everlasting
- 43 Favorite Books of 2025: Lit Hub
Starling House
- Best Books of 2023: Book Riot
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- The Best Books of 2019: She Reads

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Last Summer Catherine Breillat
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Weapons Zach Cregger
Fragments for Venus Alice Diop
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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